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thanks to josephine bosma nn will donate $10000 to the thing.ny
Nmherman@aol.com typed
>Re: A great reason to say fuck Bosma and fuck the Thing.
Incroyable.
>++
>
>This is truly an incredible post to nettime. Nettime censors everyone like
>me or that likes me or is me. They censor us in the spring and summer,
>morning and night, period. I doubt if anyone in the world could get a post
>about Genius 2000 mentioned on nettime. Also, The Thing owns nettime. So
>you get a post from Bosma, the foremost interviewer of interartists who like
>the Thing, sending a plea as if from the barricades to donate money to her
>clique of prejudicial NYC fakes. Her citing of Eno is offensive to a man of
>my caliber, as if I could be swayed by some old electronic music guy telling
>me what the internet is and who I am and how much I need the Thing to save
>the great works of art made in the last five years by the Thing's favored
>webmen: Cary Peppermint (their ace reliever); GH "no discussion of Genius
>2000 on Thingist by anyone" and writer of sickening shit like Eryk alludes to
>often in his poems. Bosma has of course declared Eryk to be brain dead or
>"instinctual," very similar to the "instinctual" Brad Brace. Both Eryk and
>Brad have proven to be conundrums for the Thing, because they don't live in
>NYC so can't be bribed by party invititations and associate with known
>cultural polluter Max Herman. Bosma wrote them their goodbye after Brad
>drove her interview into the proverbial "dogshitpile."
>
>So read this. Imagine how you'd feel if you were in my shoes. And remember,
>The Thing is a business hoping to make money. Its hangers-on are merely
>there for the money and maybe the parties. They can't be there because of
>the vital intellectual exchanges, that would be absurd beyond even Bush-era
>American norms.
>
>A great reason to say fuck Bosma and fuck the Thing: the prose you will soon
>see.
>
>Max Herman
>(scroll down to see Josephine's stomach-turning letter filled with alarming
>phrases and epithets like "new kids on the block.")
>The Genius 2000 Network
>http://www.geocities.com/genius-2000/yellow.JPG
>
>(PS--George Gordon once said of his saucy Juan scribings "confess you dog and
>be candid, is it not life, is it not the thing?" If Juan means anything to
>you at all or ever could, let not tired former punks sully the potential
>greatness of the oppressed and oppressive peoples of the United States of
>America. We got many problems already don't add complete cutural fiasco. If
>you try I will prevent you.)
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